Energy renovations of the building stock are a paramount objective of the European Union (EU) to combat climate change. A tool for renovation progress monitoring is energy performance certificate (EPC) labelling. The present study tested the effect of different EPC label classifications on a national...
In 1999, with the aim of building a number of world-class universities, the Chinese government commenced the “985 Project”, focused on developing 39 top universities in China. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education of China issued the Action Plan for Education Promotion for the 21st Century, ...
These conclusions are important for public policy since households seem to have developed an environmental responsibility, although they are not aware of the building's performance and its implications in energy efficiency. Cost saving seems to be a major argument in energy-efficiency renewals; ...
The overall size of the corporations is large with an average age over 12 years, and this suggests that the listed companies in the heavily polluted industries are those with long survival time and more human and material resource foundations. The average return on assets is 4.2%, which shows...
Some test results are not listed in the table for the reason of space. The "B&R Initiative" had a positive impact on the overall level of sustainable development of all countries along the "B&R" and the level of sustainable development in the five major areas of economy, society, ...
Once you are an Olympic city, you are never the same. Even though the OG may become a heritage event due to their huge impact, literature has mainly discussed HSE as recurring events building the expertise needed to ensure the event's continuing success over the years and thus becoming a ...
By building a system dynamics model, they simulated the aforementioned game and found that the initial choice of strategy was essential to the final result. They concluded that it is important to check the saddle point and external factors [28]. Zhao et al. (2016) established an evolutionary ...